Que the Disco Ball

A couple of weeks ago my friend asked if I had been roller skating lately. I said that if by lately you mean 6th or 7th grade, then yes, I've been recently. :0) She thought we should take our kids and go sometime, so we went. Let's just say me + 4 kids who have never skated before ever, make some great America's Funniest Home Video moments. But, unfortunately, I left my camera at home.

One step inside and the the memories came flooding back. The smelly skates, the dimmed lights, slow songs & disco ball, the hokey pokey...oh, the 80's. Anyway, we had a lot of fun but I think I should have followed the posted safety advisory: People over 25 should not to skate. (NO JOKE) Tyler skated past me and told me I was too old to skate. Thanks! Let me tell you, I feel every one of those post 25 years today. I had one really good fall, both feet out from underneath me and landed right on my backside, hard.

I was really impressed with the kids. I really thought we'd last about an hour tops. I had visions of lots of tears, whining and begging to leave. The kids have never skated before and I thought they'd get really discouraged falling all the time, especially Brooklynn and McKenna. But they were all troopers and kept at it and in fact are all begging to go back again soon. They never once complained and we had to drag them away. Chris met up with us towards the end and I even got him to skate. Here is a really bad quality video from his phone that Tyler took.